Christopher Bennet

Son of Joh. Bennet of Raynton in Somersetsh. was born there, or in that County, became a Com. of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term in the year 1632, and that of his age 15, took the degrees in Arts, entred on the Physick line, but doctorated in that faculty elsewhere. Afterwards he was made a member of the Coll. of Physicians at London, and much frequented for his practice in that City. His works are,

Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum, &c. Lond. 1654 oct.

Exercitationes Dianocticae cum historias demonstrativis, quibus alimentorum & sanguinis vitia deleguntur in plerisꝫ morbis, &c. Lond. 1655. He hath also corrected and inlarged, Healths improvement: or, rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this Nation. Lond. 1655. qu. Written originally by Tho. Moufet. This Dr. Bennet was buried on the second day of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five, in S. Gregories Church near to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London, 1655. leaving then behind him, as ’tis said, one or more things fit for the press.